Pixel Translations and Adobe Sign Contract; Pixel Provides Scan Solution for Adobe's Acrobat Capture

Business Wire, Dec 1, 1995

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 1995--Pixel Translations, Incorporated, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cornerstone Imaging, Inc., and leading supplier of document image processing software development tools, today announced that Adobe Systems Incorporated signed an agreement under which Pixel Translations will license their scanner toolkit to Adobe, for Adobe's Acrobat Capture software.

With the scanner toolkit, Acrobat Capture provides users with access to the unique functionality of up to 120 different scanners and many popular scanner interface cards.

"Acrobat Capture with the PixTools scan solution is a powerful document imaging software implementation," stated Steve Francis, Business Director of Pixel Translations.

"As more and more software vendors use our de facto standard PixTools/Scan product as their scan solution, the scanner interface should become a transparent and expected function of all leading document imaging software packages."

The PixTools/Scan toolkit, based on ISIS. the Image and Scanner Interface Specification, allows up to 120 different scanner models to be supported by Acrobat Capture. The toolkit is designed to optimize the performance and functionality of each individual scanner and scanner interface card. With this advanced, open scan solution, users select the scanner which best meets the requirements for scanning their unique document-types, whether they are scanning photographic, multi-toned, double-sided, or non-standard sized documents.

"Acrobat Capture software combines a variety of technologies, including optical character recognition (OCR), font recognition, page decomposition, and document imaging, to turn paper documents into Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). The Adobe Acrobat product family combined with Acrobat Capture software provide cross-platform environment for sharing, accessing, and archiving documents that originate in either paper or electronic form. Acrobat Capture provides a significant improvement in OCR s ability to recognize a page and provides both graphic and textual elements in a single file," stated Francis. "We're pleased that Adobe elected to use ISIS as the preferred interface to control scanners."

"Acrobat Capture allows customers to turn existing desktop hardware into a flexible and powerful solution for document imaging," said Dave Emmett, Vice President of Acrobat products, Adobe Systems Incorporated. "Our relationship with Pixel Translations enhances Acrobat Capture's ability to work with a broad range of scanner technology, providing immediate, out-of-the-box benefits and protecting hardware investments."

Adobe Systems Incorporated, founded in 1982, is headquartered in Mountain View, California. Adobe develops, markets, and supports computer software products and technologies that enable users to create, display, print, and communicate electronic documents. The company licenses its technology to major computer, printing and publishing suppliers and markets a line of applications software and type products for authoring visually rich documents. Additionally, the company markets a line of powerful, but easy to use, products for home and small business users. Adobe has subsidiaries in Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Rim serving a worldwide network of dealers and distributors. Adobe's 1994 revenue was approximately $598 million.

Pixel Translations is the leading worldwide provider of scanner interface and acceleration software libraries to professional developers in the OCR, fax, and document imaging markets. ISIS, the Image and ScannER Interface Specification, used in PixTools, was developed by Pixel Translations. ISIS has become the de facto standard for scanners used in document image processing and is supported by every major scanner manufacturer. Pixel Translations is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cornerstone Imaging, Inc.

Cornerstone Imaging, Inc., headquartered in San Jose, CA, engineers and markets hardware and software system components to enable the use of scanned document images in computer systems based on open, industry standard architectures. The company's products address the display, scan, print, storage and application development of document imaging and are designed to simplify system integration.

Cornerstone Imaging, Inc. is a publicly held company traded on The Nasdaq National Market under the CRNR symbol. -0- Note to Editors: PixTools and ISIS are registered trademarks of Pixel Translations, Incorporated. Adobe, Acrobat and Capture are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

CONTACT: Pixel Translations Inc.

Bill Lange, 408/325-3825

fax: 408/232-9292, blange@pixtran.com